Students complete a critical self assessment of their graduate capabilities with respect to the FEIT Graduate Attributes and AQF level 9 descriptors in knowledge, skills, and application.

Self Reflective Assissment     

Performing self assessment is the unique way to measure the performance of an individual from the perspective of employee. It is important to carry out the self assessment because it helps to evaluate the capability of a person and how they feel. Moreover, there also remains the opportunity to voice in the complete development process in order to gain better outcome in the future. I would like to begin my self assessment with the personal and professional experiences that I have gained till now. Although I have very little professional experience, I have lots of personal experiences in the field of engineering (Boud, 2013). I know that engineering is a tough subject and being an engineering student, I have to face many challenges in my professional and personal part. I have great interest the GPS and navigation system and I would like to pursue my career in this particular field only. I believe that this particular tool can help in the development of the organisations and that the futures of all the businesses are depended on this particular factor. I would like to get involved in the management of this engineering field and would pursue my career in this field only.

If the perspective of the team participation is taken into consideration, I would like to say that we often have to frame groups for doing projects or group assessment. In this respect, I would like to say that the major intension behind the group project is to develop a leadership approach and also to carry do work collectively (Salend, 2015). There is no doubt that engineering works require the support of a group and no work can be actually done alone. Therefore, I have gained the practice of working in a group during my education career. I can confidently work as a member of the group in future. However, in this respect, I would like to mention that I lack the proper leadership approach. In every group project, somehow I fail to give the best as per my capability. There could be many reasons behind this deficit. For instance, I believe that due to lack of proper communication ability I failed to give the best performance. So, here I identify the drawbacks in me. I really have to work on my communication skills in order to communicate well with others and to improve my qualification of being a leader. In order to do so, I have future plans to join some courses where I would be able to improve my communication ability. I know there are many institutes where personality development and communication improvement are taught. I would do that particular course in order to improve those areas in me where I am lagging behind (Douglas et al., 2014). I hope that these small things will be easily rectified in me and I would be able to be professionally best in the career that I would opt after the completion of engineering.

Considering my personal experience, I would like to say that I am not very good in the computer programming languages and often I have found to lose my proficiency when it comes to presenting my programming skills. Once it happened that I had to give a presentation in the class on the computer programming language but I did not have that confidence in me. That day I felt that unless I devote more time in my studies, I would not be able to develop that confidence in me and it is very important to be confident enough in work in order to face the practical life. Keeping all these instances into consideration, I have decided that I would concentrate more in studies and improve my programming skills. There is no doubt that without proper programming skills, an engineer can never be successful in life (Brown, 2015). I would like to say that after graduation, my engineering skills have improved in the FEIT graduation attribute to a large extent.

I have developed better understanding in the engineering subjects as well as in my personal life. The life in FEIT after graduation has helped me to pursue my major in the engineering subject and help me to improve my knowledge. In the FEIT graduation attribute, I have come across many complex situations that have actually helped me to gain confidence in myself. I can now face challenges in my life because I have gained that confidence in myself. In this respect, I would like to highlight an important point that I have learned during my education career that there are many ways of solving a problem. It might happen that we get stuck into a particular point and we could not find any way out that that time (Lin et al., 2015). However, it should always be considered that there are many ways of solving a problem. Engineering after the graduation, at the FEIT has taught me to never lose confidence and be effective enough to decide upon the right point of action that is to be taken in order to overcome the problem.

In my engineering career, I have gained much knowledge that would eventually help me to succeed in my life. I will have to continue my career in the field of engineering only, but I do not assume that to be successful in life, only professional qualification is required. There are many other measuring criteria that need to be fulfilled as well in order to become successful in life. I have to develop my leadership skills and I have to devote more time in order to improve my engineering skills on programming language. If these are rectified, I would be successful in my career. This can be done only if I concentrate on the major goals of life and fulfil all the necessary criterions required to be successful in life. I want to be a successful engineer in my life and the programs at the FEIT has definitely helped me to gain that opportunity to fulfil my dream. I hope I will be very successful in my career

References:

Boud, D. (2013). Enhancing learning through self-assessment. Routledge.

Brown, G. (2015, October). Self and peer assessment. In Assessment & Grading Seminar Series.

Douglas, K. A., Wertz, R. E. H., Fosmire, M., Purzer, ?., & Van Epps, A. S. (2014, June). First year and Junior Engineering Students’ Self-Assessment of Information Literacy Skills. In 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

Lin, Y., Yang, J., Lv, Z., Wei, W., & Song, H. (2015). A self-assessment stereo capture model applicable to the internet of things. Sensors, 15(8), 20925-20944.

Salend, S. J. (2015). Creating inclusive classrooms: Effective, differentiated and reflective practices. Pearson.

Torres-Guijarro, S., & Bengoechea, M. (2017). Gender differential in self-assessment: a fact neglected in higher education peer and self-assessment techniques. Higher Education Research & Development, 36(5), 1072-1084.